The North Korean deputy overseas minister has rebuffed Washington’s criticism of Moscow-Pyongyang relations
North Korea’s deputy overseas minister has accused the US of “unjust and outrageous hostility” in the direction of Pyongyang and Moscow, saying it reveals Washington’s hegemonic mentality based mostly on Cold War logic.
“The US ill-minded repugnancy toward the North Korea-Russia relations only reveals that it lacks power and wits in the showdown with the anti-imperialist independent countries,” Im Chon Il stated in a press release on Sunday.
The safety alliance between the US, South Korea and Japan – in addition to the Washington-led NATO navy bloc – are “cancer-like entities jeopardizing the international order,” the diplomat claimed, describing NATO as “the mastermind of the Ukrainian crisis.”
Im went on to say relations between North Korea and Russia have reached “the height of development” because of actions by the US and its allies, who “have gone to the extremes in their confrontational and divisive moves for gaining hegemony.”
North Korea intends to additional enhance its ties with Russia and different “independent sovereign countries” so as to “deter the imperialists’ military threat… and firmly defend peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of the world,” the diplomat insisted.
Last month, North Korean chief Kim Jong-un spent nearly per week in Russia, arriving within the nation’s Far East by prepare. During the go to, he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and different officers. Among different issues, Kim toured the Vostochny Cosmodrome, inspected navy and civilian aviation vegetation, and was proven Russia’s nuclear-capable strategic bombers and fighter jets, together with a MiG-31 plane armed with the Kinzhal hypersonic missile.
The go to induced severe considerations in Seoul and Washington, with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol claiming that “military cooperation between North Korea and Russia is illegal and unjust as it contravenes UN Security Council resolutions and various other international sanctions.”
Similar feedback had been made by US officers, who additionally speculated that Putin and Kim had been discussing the availability of shells by North Korea to Russia amid the battle in Ukraine. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby warned that if Moscow and Pyongyang had been to “decide to move forward with some sort of arms deals, well, obviously we’ll take a measure of that, and we’ll deal with it appropriately.”
Putin stated final month that Russia intends to construct “good neighborly relations” with North Korea. “We never violate anything and in this case we’re not planning to violate anything,” the Russian chief stated, referring to claims that cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang had been in violation of UN sanctions on North Korea. There was no point out of any arms offers being signed throughout Kim’s go to to Russia, by both Moscow or Pyongyang.
(RT.com)